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NO SHADOWS AT NOON an anthology on no...
A lost twin sister nobody will talk about; a surreal garden with an unwanted dependent; platonic friendship but only for a season; a girl out of water taken under a strict wing; a Nairobi success forced into a coastal songstress; a wounded heart seeking paternal vengeance; will poetry keep grandma here just a bit longer?; an old dented pot and an unlikely shield; an abandoned god grappling with the indifference of humanity.
Shortlisted from the Wanderer's Path 2026 Short Story Competition. Nine short stories on non-romantic love.
WHISPERS IN THE STREETS -Tales of Nai...
Life in Nairobi is a cocktail of contrasts—where the cries of the poor in crowded streets meet the lonely murmurs of the wealthy in palatial homes. From the relentless hustle of the unemployed and the dreamers to the rivalries of touts, stray dogs, politicians, and the ever-present street urchins, this collection delves into the gritty, heart-wrenching, yet humor-filled fabric of Nairobi’s social complexities.
Here, survival is found in the sizzle of mutura on charcoal grills, the smell of roasted chicken parts, and the lively nyama choma dens where the elite feast. It is also in the absurdities of the CBC (Competency-Based Curriculum), where children are expected to bring enough meat to start a mini-butchery for their practicals—never mind that many of them barely have a meal at home. Green foods are ignored, as if Nairobi’s children can thrive on nothing but ribs and roasted thighs.
Meanwhile, single mothers leave before dawn to chase a living, their children left to navigate a world that often demands too much and gives too little. Some find solace in school, others in the streets, where lessons in survival come faster than in a classroom.
Yet, beyond the struggles, Nairobi dazzles. It is a city where hope refuses to die, where strangers share jokes in matatus, and where ambition thrives against all odds. The same streets that test survival also inspire resilience, birthing entrepreneurs, artists, and dreamers who turn adversity into opportunity.
Through these stories, you’ll meet Nairobi’s diverse characters—the hustlers who refuse to quit, the hide-and-seek games between police and matatu drivers, the retirees who have everything but no one, and the broken-hearted searching for solace in a city that gives little but demands much. From politicians who may steal from the people to boda bodas who rewrite traffic rules, from pastors selling anointing oil to high-fliers questioning their own humanity, this book exposes it all.
With biting commentary and dark humor, Whispers in the Streets unearths the untold lives behind the city’s glossy façade. In Nairobi, the streets don’t just whisper; they roar—with contradictions, resilience, and an undying spirit that refuses to be silenced.
The Broken Stool and Other Stories
In these ten engrossing stories, Simon Nganga explores the meaning and consequences of choices that are usually considered national and society-wide from the eyes of individuals residing in local markets and villages. With unmatched precision and easy-to-read language, each story takes us through the characters’ effort to make choices as they desperately search for meaning in their ever-changing lives, with deeply unsettling results.
All The Old Gods- A collection of ess...
A feminist’s unrivaled desire for freedom beyond the shadows cast by society and the shame accompanying unbridled self-expression. Defacing parallels drawn between femininity and weakness.
A Cyborg’s quest to discover what it truly means to be human in a journey spanning centuries. Uncertainty gives urgency to this tale as an artificial intelligence masters human emotion and the potential dangers it exposes to mankind. An analysis of the most practical financial model capable of liberating Africa from the shackles of poverty into the dawn of economic prosperity.
A family afflicted from the wounds of an absentee mother and a young woman’s great expectation of forgiveness, resolution and healing. Identity, race and the systems of control experienced through the eyes of a young man grappling with the ills of modern-day power structures. In a bid to comprehend how some men came to be unequal.
Folklore from a bygone era, exhuming an age-old question. What does it profit a man to gain the entire world at the expense of his soul?
Compiled in a thought-provoking collection of essays and short stories. Providing crystalline observations of life at large and the transcendent nature of the human condition.
Shifting Sands
Shifting Sands is a gripping narration by Kemunto aka Kemu" to her three girlfriends, all of different cultural heritage. Kemu aspires to be a writer but life with its vicissitudes doesn't make her dream an easy one. We follow the four young girls as they mature in this adventure, growing up and facing the world. Their encounters, surprises and cultural intricacies make for good reading.
Their intertwined lives from a young age, and their different cultural backgrounds and upbringing offer interesting insights. Kemu and Myra are Kenyan Africans while Shilpa is third-generation Kenyan-Indian and Latifah is third-generation Kenyan-Arab. The latter two face questions of nationality all the time, despite that their families have been in the country for generations.
Shifting Sands is an intriguing tale of enduring encounters of living a moral and ethical life, placing its own challenges on friendships cemented from early childhood and school. How will the four ladies' friendship survive?
Shifting Sand's various strands of narratives are compelling and herald the coming of age of a gifted and talented writer who brings women and children experiences hauntingly to life. In this tale we get contrasting insights of issues that impact women, children and relationships. Tradition and cultural practices of old are challenged in the face of modernity while age-old wisdom, like that from Kemu's grandmother (Magokoro) and father, appear immutable.
What Others Say
"Mombasa, a tapestry city where east meets west and north meets south, is the metonymy that gives Moraa Gitaa the opportunity to indict archaic cultural beliefs, government authorities, extremism, the suppression of women, and a whole slew of questionable practices in modern Kenya. Kemunto's voice is that of the archetypal, dignified and upright woman everywhere in the developing world, not just that of the African woman. Quite well said." - Charles Phebih-Agyekum, author and book editor.
"Shifting Sands is a powerful, compelling and gripping narrative employing a mature mastery of the English language that leaves the reader yearning for more." - Excerpt from judges' comments, 2008 National Book Development Council of Kenya Literary Awards.
"Moraa Gitaa's Shifting Sands will add value to the national discourse on gender discrimination, inter-generational tensions, socioeconomic marginalization, HIV and AIDS, the injustices suffered by the poor in this country, corruption, transnational and global connections and their impact on the lives of Kenyans and other nationals residing in the country." - Comparative Literature Lecturer at a Kenyan university.
The Return of the Sun by Kevin Omwanza
The Return of the Sun explores the immorality of slavery with partakers offering excuses in support of the brutal practice. The author elicits questions on how to end the practice: by supplanting the captors or forging a new, more inclusive, path.
The islands, home to most African communities, are breeding grounds for pirates who defend against invaders or are out to enslave others. An African king and slave trader, Jabari, is cruel to neighbouring communities, as a result of which his son and heir to the throne, Shaka, is abducted. Shaka's mother later flees on account of her husband's callousness.Zola, while searching for her brother, gets abducted by Charlie's pirates.
Charlie falls in love with her, but she promises to marry him when Charlie frees Shaka. Enchanted, Charlie agrees. Shaka leaves, planning to return and save all his people. Meanwhile, Tendai, a slave who grew up in Jabari's palace, realizes that the king orphaned him at an early age.
He joins Black Caesar, a black pirate focused on ending slavery. Caesar desires to entrench African civilization through the revival of Egyptian civilization. He has an island where he settles freed Africans and maintains a critical attitude towards Shaka who, though perceived as saviour by his people, practices slavery.
In a party that paves way for Charlie's marriage to Zola, Caesar lays siege that portends uncertainties!
A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen
A Don House is a three-act play written by Henrik Ibsen, the same author of the evergreen An Enemy of the People. It deals with the fate of a married woman — Nora Helmer — who lacks reasonable opportunities for self-fulfillment in a male-dominated world. The protagonist in the play, Nora had earlier on committed a forgery, in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband, Torvald Helmer.
And now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband finding out about her vice, and of the shame, such a revelation would bring to his career. When the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem. To her husband, Nora is an amusing 'thing' to be petted, but unreliable.
To other people like Mrs Linden and Nils Krogstad, she is naive and spoiled. Nora symbolizes the status of the majority of women in this conservative patriarchal society, making the play as relevant today as it was, decades ago, in Norway.
Rafiki Man Guitar by Meja Mwangi
Brief Summary
Rafiki, an out-of-luck musician, turned bounty hunter and debt collector, volunteers to help a failing shopkeeper find his debtors and collect the money they owe him.
However, the mile long list of loan defaulters comprises of the town’s poorest residents, many of whom have changed their residences, their names and identities and gone underground.
Others will not part with the goods they got on credit, and will defend them with their lives. Moreover, Rafiki’s friends, and relatives are on the list, and so is the Chief, and he has the power to arrest and detain Rafiki without trial.
A Season of Blood: Poems from Kenyan ...
The conditions that prisoners in Kenya endure are extremely barbaric. Every morning at 5 a.m., male prisoners are ordered out of the cells stark naked for internal body searches. The guards search their mouths and armpits, ears and nostrils. They pull, twist and squeeze their genitals.
They order the prisoners to face the walls with their legs spread apart to examine their anuses for concealed weapons, money and other contraband. They use sharp sticks to probe the prisoner's rectums. In a sense, the guards are more interested in prisoners' buttocks than in the search.
They make sexual remarks such as, "Look at this one, his buttocks are two mountains, it is difficult to mount him...and look at this one, his arsehole is sharped like a woman's vagina...This one has a soft arse like his mother..." After the brutal searches, the prisoners are beaten and kicked. These monstrous acts are repeated every morning. It is a humiliating and degrading.
Maina was arrested on June 2, 1982 by dictator Moi's regime for the crime of thought. He was imprisoned for six years with hard labor. Despite the brutal isolation and censorship, physical and psychological torture, Maina made friends with a few prison guards who supplied him writing material and smuggled everything g he wrote out of prison and took it to Mumbi, his wife.
The poems in this text were part of the written material smuggled out of prison. The themes of poems express the horrors of imprisonment, the brutality and viciousness of the Kenyan authoritarian regime, the intensification of the struggle for democracy.
Mountain of Bones by Meja Mwangi
Brief Summary
The junior readers series has been designed to encourage reading for pleasure among upper primary school children. Wide and repeated reading of books in the series should enable pupils to automatically improve their written and spoken English.
Jimi the dog goes missing and Kariuki does not know where to look for him. Is it really safe to go to Majengo to look for him? Join Kariuki and Nigel in this exciting journey to the mountain of bones.
Old Africa Magazine
The People of Ostrich Mountain by Ndi...
Brief Summary
As the 1950s Mau Mau war breaks out in the foothills of Mt. Kenya, Wambũi, a fourteen-year-old girl leaves her besieged village to join a prestigious boarding school a half day’s journey away by train. There, she becomes aware of her extraordinary mathematical abilities discovered by her teacher, Eileen Atwood. Initially, Wambũi views Eileen’s attentions with suspicion and hostility, but over time, the two grow close and form a lifelong friendship. Unfortunately for Wambũi, the mid-twentieth century isn’t ready for a female math prodigy, particularly in Kenya.
But she quietly and defiantly takes on the obstacles seeking to define her, applying her unusual gifts in new directions, which ultimately benefits her impoverished family and inspires her siblings and their children to pursue their own dreams. After forty years in Kenya, Eileen unexpectedly loses her employment authorization and is forced to return to England, where she struggles to adjust to living in a country she barely recognizes. Meanwhile, Wambũi’s son, Ray, a doctor, navigates a fraught visa application process and travels to America to begin residency training; however, his hospital becomes insolvent and shuts down a year later. He and his colleagues are assimilated into other programs where, as foreign-born physicians, they endure relentless prejudice. As a black man, he also discovers that the streets of Chicago are sometimes quick to judge, with serious consequences.
A saga of family and friendship spanning five decades and three continents, 'The People of Ostrich Mountain' chronicles the interconnected lives of three outsiders as they navigate the vagaries of race, gender and immigration.
FADING SHADOWS BY AIMEE KATEI
When Kandie returns to Ego Valley after five years, she expects the past to remain buried. Instead, it welcomes her like her like an open wound. The scars she fought so hard to outrun begin tearing open once more, forcing her to confront the truth behind her family's death and the darkness that has haunted her for years.
But Kandie is not the only one interested in the past. As buried secrets slowly rise to the surface, shadows begin closing in around her. Some people have learned to survive within the darkness, willing to drag anyone into it.
Desperate to uncover the truth, Kandie finds herself trapped between fear, grief and an evil that never truly disappeared. The more she chases the flickering ray of light that appears and dissappears within the the dark, the more she risks losing herself to it, and the light keeps fading around her.
Will Kandie keep fighting the darkness or will it finally consume her?
Evil does not always scream in our faces. Sometimes it whispers softly in our ears untill we believe it.
CHINDERA THE ABADONED SON by Caroline...
Book summary
Chindera grows up in a family that offers him shelter but denies him dignity. Raised by Mr. Kabinga, his secret biological father, he lives as both family and servant, enduring silent suffering out of gratitude. As he comes of age, love briefly offers him hope, first with Kira and later with Samina. But betrayal runs deep within the Kabinga family.
Consumed by jealousy, Kunte destroys Chindera’s chance at happiness, forcing Samina into a loveless marriage that ends in tragedy. When Samina is killed, Chindera becomes the perfect scapegoat in a chain of lies, manipulation, and buried secrets. Abandoned by the very people he trusted, he is condemned for a crime he did not commit, his loyalty repaid with ultimate betrayal.
DARE DREAM BY WANGA DOMNIC
My book Dare dream is a fictional narrative on a boy, Brian raised in the slums of Kariadudu where his parents had moved after being failed by the system that promised jobs but delivered hopelessness and took away dignity.his parents instill in him a different blueprint. A system of abundance is wired into his brain and in an area filled with hopelessness and no prospects of livelihoods changing ,the young boy dares to dream of a better tomorrow. This is when even tomorrow itself isn't guaranteed. The boy observes what goes on around him, corruption carried out by a failed system, injustice to the voiceless, extortion of the have not by haves of the land and irresponsibility of individuals in nation building. The family relocate to their rural home where Brian gets to begin his schooling as a 9 year old in his quest to become a doctor. After years of staying in the village, Brian experiences a culture shock when he joins highschool and is forced to embrace solitude as his weapon. Solitude the place where he believes he made the biggest discovery, himself.
If GOD Had an Office by Muriuki Gitonga.
TRANSITION by Mirigo Kinyanjui
Flowers Have Thorns
Jane was right: every flower carries a thorn. Beauty walks hand-in-hand with ache. Sometimes, the sting finds you in silence, only known by the mark it leaves behind.
But I stayed. Rooted. Floriculture became my home, where purpose met passion, and my mission took root: to guide others to their own mountaintops, to help them find truth, not just blooms. I vowed to leave behind a garden scented with integrity, watered with courage.
